The Empire of SHASLAND is a gargantuan, efficient nation, ruled by SamusHikaru with an iron fist, and renowned for its pith helmet sales, free-roaming dinosaurs, and compulsory military service. The hard-nosed, cynical, humorless population of 14.732 billion SHASLANDians are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Yeland. The average income tax rate is 86.8%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The all-consuming SHASLANDian economy, worth a remarkable 1,544 trillion SHAS a year, is highly specialized and led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Book Publishing, and Information Technology. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 104,843 SHAS, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again, attendance of fathers at PTA meetings is at an all-time high, the fire protection service is wholly government-funded, and the government has pledged that not one drop of its citizens' blood will be spilt. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. SHASLAND's national animal is the tiger, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

SHASLAND is ranked 257,969^th in the world and 9,806^th in Osiris for Highest Disposable Incomes, with 13,839.29 Standard Monetary Units.